An Ohio judge has ruled that the rape trial of two high school football players will take place in the county where the alleged attack happened.

Article: The Right Reverend Steven Croft will leave his role as the Bishop of Sheffield to take up his new position.
Dr Croft will be the most senior clergyman in the Church of England for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
The Diocese faced "an extended vacancy" after votes in May last year failed to produce a candidate.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
Downing Street announced Dr Croft's appointment on Tuesday.
He was ordained in 1987 and became the Bishop of Sheffield in 2009.
The Diocese of Oxford has been without a permanent bishop since the Right Rev John Pritchard stepped down in October 2014.
Interviews of potential candidates were held in 2015, but the Archbishop of Canterbury said the Crown Nominations Commission - which elects bishops - had "been unable to discern the candidate whom God is calling".
The Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Rev Colin Fletcher, acted as bishop of the diocese in lieu of a full-time post holder.
Dr Croft will tour the diocese on Tuesday. He will meet the Bishop of Reading and the Bishop of Buckingham.

Summary: A new Bishop of Oxford has been announced two years after the post became vacant.
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Article: It meant that a computer alarm kept going off, and in their attempt to fix the issue mid-flight, the crew lost control of the aircraft. All 162 people on board the Airbus A320 died.
The report suggests that the experienced pilot pulled a circuit breaker because he may have seen engineers do a similar thing to resolve the same problem on the ground. It is like pulling the plug to reset your computer.
Pilots are allowed to do it but only in extreme circumstances, and only when they fully understand the impact it will have.
This time around the impact seemed to take the crew by surprise. Pulling the circuit breaker switched off the autopilot.
With no autopilot, the less experienced co-pilot took over the plane. That in itself should not be a problem. But without the computer to help, aircraft can fly a little differently. It goes into a state called "alternate law".
One experienced pilot told me that the controls can become much more sensitive and take a few minutes to get used to.
The report says the co-pilot seemed to become disorientated as the aircraft banked sharply. He kept pulling the nose up until the plane stalled. That is not like an engine stalling on a car, but when there is not enough air going over the wings to create the lift that keeps the aircraft in the sky.
Investigators use words like "delayed response", "startled" and "disorientated" saying of the co-pilot: "He did not react appropriately in this complex emergency."
It seems the more experienced pilot did not take control, as he is trained to do. He was doing the opposite of the co-pilot, pushing the nose down to come out of the stall, but the report says it did not have any effect because the aircraft averages out what the two control sticks are doing.
On an Airbus it is hard to see what your colleague is up to. The sticks are like computer joysticks and they sit on each side of the cockpit, on the armrest, rather than between the feet.
Meanwhile, we have found out that the same part that triggered the computer alarm had been faulty 23...

Summary: Some faulty soldering was the trigger for the clearly avoidable crash of the AirAsia plane in the Java Sea in December 2014, a report from Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee says.
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Article: It comes three years after its MH370 flight bound for Beijing disappeared with 239 people on board.
Using a soon-to-be-launched satellite network, the airline will be able to monitor its planes in areas where there is currently no surveillance.
They include polar regions and remote areas of oceans not covered by existing systems.
The airline reached a deal for the service provided by US-based Aireon, FlightAware and SITAONAIR.
The new system can also provide more regular updates on a plane's location, especially when travelling over oceans and other remote areas, said SITAONAIR's portfolio director Paul Gibson.
Aircrafts deviating from a flight path could be identified more quickly as a result, he said.
"With access to up-to-the-minute reporting, Malaysia Airlines will know the location, heading, speed and altitude of all aircraft in its fleet, at all times, and be alerted to any exceptions."
But it is unclear if the additional tracking ability would have had any impact on the MH370 disappearance.
All tracking systems monitor a plane's location using its on-board transmitter.  When the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight vanished in March 2014, the transmitter signal was lost, with some suspicions it was done deliberately.
Most flights currently transmit their position using signals tracked from both the ground and space.
The new service, available in 2018,  will add to that coverage, using the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation which was launched earlier this year.
The fate of MH370 remains one of the world's greatest aviation mystery. More than 120,000 sq km (46,300 miles) of the Indian Ocean has been searched with no sign of the aircraft.
Some pieces of debris have been found on African islands including Madagascar.
The deep-water search for the flight was called off earlier this year.
Malaysian Airlines has been trying to win back customers' confidence, by offering travel discounts and flight promotions.
The carrier's chief operating officer, Izham Ismail, said the firm was "proud" to be the first airline to...

Summary: Malaysia Airlines has become the first carrier to sign up to a new satellite flight tracking system for its fleet.
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Article: In January 2015, the ZX Spectrum games console - originally launched by Clive Sinclair in 1982 - went back into production in the UK and will be sold pre-loaded with 1,000 classic games.
The same month, Sony brought a 21st Century twist to its classic personal stereo the Walkman, a brand it launched in 1979 and retired in 2010, in the form of a high-end digital music player.
Ion Audio also unveiled a new record player - the Air LP, a turntable equipped with bluetooth for music streaming. It also has USB connectivity so it can be plugged in to a computer.
And in the gaming zone at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, nestling between the Xboxes, Playstations, 4K graphics and virtual reality headsets, was a machine with origins dating back at least 250 years.
That device was the humble pinball machine - the earliest recorded being the bagatelles of 18th Century France.
So why can't we let go of our old tech?
"As is the case in fashion or furniture, retro is quite attractive," said analyst Carolina Milanesi from analysts Kantar.
"With tech, however, it gets tricky as you need to deliver value. In some cases, vendors deliver new tech in a retro package while in others the technology, while improved in specs, remains pretty close to the initial offering."
While using a brand like the Walkman is a good sales tactic, ultimately it is a long way from the original in terms of what it offers - and its price tag (£949) is steep, she added.
"Personally, I believe, that design versus tech would work better as a retro offering - but even so the appeal would be limited."
In America, old arcade games are enjoying a revival thanks in part to the success of drinking establishments like the chain Barcade, where drinkers can quaff locally produced beers while indulging in some classic arcade entertainment.
"Our most popular games are the classics like Ms Pac Man and Donkey Kong and also the multiplayer games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Simpsons, NBA Jam and X-Men," said Barcade CEO Paul Kermizian.
"We...

Summary: Looking at some of the latest tech news, it's tempting to wonder whether we've all jumped out of the same DeLorean famously driven by time travellers Doc Brown and Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
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Article: Charles Tunnicliffe, from Malltraeth, who died in 1979, created some of his best known work for the "What to look for" seasonal series of Ladybird books.
Anglesey council's museums officer Ian Jones said the artist helped educate generations of children about wildlife.
The exhibition is on show at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, until December.
Born in Macclesfield in 1901, Tunnicliffe spent most of his life on Anglesey, moving to Malltraeth, near Llangefni in 1947, living there until his death.
Having grown up on a farm, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London.
Tunnicliffe was then able to combine his training and rural upbringing to find work as a freelance commercial artist, designing adverts for farming supplies such as cattle food and fertiliser.
In his 30s, he began illustrating books, winning acclaim for his very first work in this field - Henry Williamson's novel Tarka the Otter.
Moving to Anglesey gave Tunnicliffe further inspiration for his work, which would appear in magazines including Country Life and the Radio Times and even on picture cards given away in packets of tea.
Tunnicliffe's association with Ladybird Books began in the late 1950s with illustrations for The Farm, a learning-to-read book.
It was followed by What To Look for in Winter, the first in a series of nature and wildlife books covering the four seasons.
Along with copies of the books, the exhibition includes original illustrations and artworks by Tunnicliffe, as part of a history of Ladybird books from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Ian Jones, museum officer for Anglesey council, said: "Charles Tunnicliffe is recognised as being one of the foremost wildlife artists of the 20th Century, and a great many of his works were produced here on Anglesey.
"While his contribution to the art world was tremendous, his illustrations for Ladybird Books also helped educate generations of children and young people about the wildlife around us.
"We're pleased to be able to unveil this wonderful exhibition at Oriel Ynys Mon and...

Summary: Wildlife illustrations for children's books by a renowned Anglesey artist are being celebrated in an exhibition on the island.
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Article: Judge Thomas Lipps rejected arguments by defence lawyers that witnesses could face intimidation or harassment outside the courthouse in Steubenville.
The case has attracted attention due to social media and the high profile of the football team in the small town.
Judge Lipps also ruled the non-jury trial would be open to the public.
He did so over the objections of the family of the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly attacked.
She wanted to protect her identity and keep evidence that might eventually be ruled inadmissible from becoming public.
Trenton Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, both 16, deny the charges they face next month at a juvenile court.
Three other students who witnessed the alleged attack but were not charged are expected to testify at next month's trial.
Those witnesses include two who took a video and photograph, then deleted the images.
The Ohio attorney general's office told lawyers for those students last autumn that if the images had been found, they would have been charged.
Prosecutors say the girl, who went to a school across the river from the city in West Virginia, was attacked after an alcohol-fuelled party last August.
The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up the alleged crime in order protect the two accused.
The trial is set for 13 March.

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The British and German economies are the "beating heart" of Europe, George Osborne has said as he heads to Berlin for talks on reforming the EU.

Article: Two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and a Philippines woman, Mary Jane Veloso were notified by Indonesian officials on Saturday.
Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution, but no formal date has yet been set.
The appeals process for a French national is still under way.
The group is being held on the prison island of Nusakambangan.
"Indonesian authorities today [Saturday] advised Australian consular officials that the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be scheduled imminently at Nusa Kambangan prison in central Java," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.
She said she would continue to press for clemency. However, Indonesia's government has rejected all appeals so far.
Veloso's parents, two sons and sister travelled to the island on Saturday to see her.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were the leaders of the "Bali Nine" group arrested in 2005 while attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia.
A court ruled that they had organised a nine-member smuggling operation and they were sentenced to death in 2006.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who took office last year, has taken a tough stance on drug crime.
In January he authorised the executions of six people, including five foreigners, convicted of drug offences.
The group of 10 awaiting execution also includes Brazilian and Nigerian nationals.
Who are the Bali Nine?

Summary: At least three of 10 people on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling have been given formal notice of their imminent execution.
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Article: The Foreign Affairs Committee said the service, which translates and analyses international news, is a "key source of information" for the Foreign Office.
A £4m shortfall means BBC Monitoring faces losing 40% of its staff in the UK and 20% abroad.
The Foreign Office said it "has confidence" in the current system of funding by the licence fee.
Since the start of World War Two, BBC Monitoring has been tracking global developments by keeping a watch on the world's media and now has an annual budget of about £27m.
The government passed responsibility for funding the service in 2013 to licence fee payers, following a change announced in then-chancellor George Osborne's 2010 spending review.
But the report from a cross-party committee of MPs said that decision should be reversed as it was made for "presentational" reasons.
"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office needs to be the eyes and ears of the UK abroad... BBC Monitoring is one of its key sources of information," it said.
"There is no good reason why the government should expect to have the benefit of a product which is key to policy-making without providing funding for it.
"The taxpayer is the main beneficiary of BBC Monitoring's work, not the licence fee payer; and logically the taxpayer should fund it," it added.
In a statement, the BBC said it too believes BBC Monitoring could continue to meet the government's needs after the planned restructuring.
"We will continue to honour the licence fee agreement from 2010.
"However, if the government decided there would benefits in offering additional direct funding to BBC Monitoring, we would be happy to consider this," a BBC spokeswoman said.

Summary: The government should restore its funding of BBC Monitoring, MPs have said.
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Article: Earlier this month the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced fresh measures designed to boost the eurozone, including a "below-zero" interest rate and cheap, long-term bank loans.
ECB president Mario Draghi has referred to inflation below 1% as being in "the danger zone".
The bank wants inflation to be near 2%.
Flash estimates from the EU statistics office, Eurostat, show that the service industry was the only sector to report significant price growth, with a rise of 1.3%, but food, alcohol & tobacco prices were down 0.2%, and industrial goods remained unchanged.
Separate figures from the eurozone showed that retail sales in Greece enjoyed their strongest annual rise in more than two years in April, up 7.3% compared with the year before.
In Germany, retail sales in May were up 1.9% compared with the year before, but down 0.6% compared with April's figures.
Earlier this month, the ECB became the first major central bank to introduce negative interest rates, in an effort to get money moving into the stagnant eurozone economy.
There had been concerns that the eurozone could slip into deflation, raising fears that consumers might spend even less because they would expect prices to fall in future months.
Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global, said there may be "some relief" within the ECB that eurozone inflation did not weaken further in June.
"Nevertheless, the ECB will likely have been hoping that inflation would actually edge a little higher in June following a marked move back up in German inflation," he added.

Summary: The rate of inflation in the eurozone remained at 0.5% in June, marking the ninth consecutive month of below-target growth in the 18 member states.
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Article: Coverage is set to reach 95% by 2019, North Yorkshire County Council said.
Council leader, Carl Les, said: "Trying to deliver any service across 3,000 sq miles is always going to be a challenge."
Now some local community projects are delivering broadband via fibre-optic cable after raising their own funds.
Mr Les said: "We thought [100% coverage] was a realistic expectation but with the benefit of experience we're now realising that it's perhaps that little bit more difficult than we thought at first."
He said broadband had been delivered to over 90% of locations within "a relatively short time" but he understood those left out would be "very disappointed".
High-quality broadband with a minimum speed of 25Mbps will cover 91% of North Yorkshire premises by June at a cost of about £35 million, the council said.
Funding of £21m has been agreed by the council for the third and final phase to reach 95% of premises.
Simon Peach, led a community scheme in Clapham cum Newby to raise about £250,000 to provide broadband for everyone in the parish.
He said about 20 miles (32km) of fibre optic cable had connected about 100 houses and delivered broadband speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps, but it required volunteers to negotiate land access to complete the project.
He said: "We did the right thing absolutely. It is frustrating because those of us who live in rural properties are last in the queue."

Summary: Some remote communities in North Yorkshire will not get high-speed broadband despite being promised 100% access by 2017, a council has admitted.
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Article: 15 January 2016 Last updated at 09:23 GMT
It's the first product in Hasbro's Joy For All range, a series of products aimed at the elderly.
We introduced the robocat to Rosalie, a cat owned by Kirsten Brown, a technology journalist for California-based website Fusion.

Summary: Hasbro's robotic cat is designed to move and act like a real cat.
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Article: The Chancellor will meet finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to set out more details of the UK's bid to renegotiate its EU membership.
Securing German backing is important for the success of British plans for reform.
David Cameron has already courted support from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Osborne said: "The UK and German economies are the beating heart of Europe, the engine for growth and jobs.
"Together we make the world's third-largest economy, behind only America and China, and since the crisis ended, we have generated two-thirds of EU growth.
"But the future holds challenges for our economies. We must cut debt and boost productivity. To do this, we need a strong EU, fit for today's challenges and working for the benefit of all 28 member states.
"The UK's reform and renegotiation plans aim to achieve this, which is why these talks with key partners in Europe are so important."
Mr Osborne will also visit a Siemens factory in the German capital and address an audience of business leaders at the annual conference of the BDI, the Federation of German Industries.
In May Germany's Chambers of Commerce and Industry warned that a UK exit from the EU would be "disastrous" for the two countries.
Volker Treier, deputy chief executive of the organisation, told the BBC that German business was "astonished" that the UK was planning a referendum on its EU membership.
David Cameron's renegotiation plans will be formally debated for the first time by the EU's 28 leaders at a summit in Brussels in mid-December.

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Article: He was "ranting about Europe".
"Do you know the Vale of Glamorgan is the most Eurosceptic place in Wales?" asks the Welsh Tory leader.
If so, Mr Davies should feel at home. He's announced he'll vote to leave the EU.
He's always been a Eurosceptic, he says, so he didn't need to agonise over whether to make that announcement.
"Anyone who knows me knows I agonise over very little. That's why I look so young."
But before going on an anti-EU charm offensive, he has another objective: becoming first minister.
Campaigning for the EU referendum on June 23 is on hold until after the assembly election on May 5 - an election he hopes will usher in a Welsh Tory government.
That'll be difficult. It's likely some form of coalition would be needed to put the Tories in charge.
And while Mr Davies says he doesn't rule anything in or out, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood, leader of the assembly's third biggest party, has no appetite to work with him.
Nevertheless, Mr Davies is convinced there are enough Tory supporters out there.
Just look at last year's general election, he says. More people voted Conservative then than voted for Carwyn Jones's Labour Party at the last assembly election in 2011.
That may be true, but turnout at assembly elections has been much lower than in general elections.
"So what we've got to do is energise people to say the assembly is important," Mr Davies says.
"The assembly election is vital to our future wellbeing - and we need change. After 17 years here of Labour running services into the ground we need to secure real change in Wales."
Being a member of the national assembly is a privilege, he tells me.
The other three party leaders in the institution were campaigning for its creation 20 years ago. What was Mr Davies attitude towards devolution back then?
"I suppose quiet indifference would have been the word I would have used. Ultimately, I was securing my family's future - my business's future - by getting my head down and working here on the family farm.
"Really, politics was most probably not that...

Summary: On his farm in the Vale of Glamorgan - one of five owned by his family - Andrew RT Davies says a neighbour paid him a visit recently.
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Article: His assurance came as he answered questions about the possible takeover of General Motors' European operations, including Vauxhall, by the French PSA.
PSA owns both Peugeot and Citroen and its interest in buying the GM businesses was announced last week.
Mr Clark met the PSA board and French industry minister last Friday.
Speaking in the Commons, the business secretary said his French counterpart, Christophe Sirugue, had told him it was important that all Opel's factories across Europe were treated fairly.
"We have a very strong domestic market and Vauxhall has a large share of that - something PSA recognises," said Mr Clark.
"One of the points the PSA executives made to me was that since the new management of PSA has been in place, they have taken some pride in having part of their strategy not to close plants," he added.
Meanwhile, Germany's deputy economy minister, Matthias Machnig, said that GM and PSA were yet to give any binding guarantees on German jobs, but that there had been some encouraging signs.
Vauxhall employs abut 4,500 workers in the UK, making cars in Ellesmere Port and vans in Luton.
Mr Clark sidestepped a question about whether any sweeteners were on offer to ensure that the PSA Group - if it takes over the loss-making GM businesses in Europe - will maintain manufacturing in the UK.
However, he said the UK car industry was very competitive, had a flexible workforce, and was investing in technology.
"The UK is a beacon of success in this, and other, industries," Mr Clark said.
"From my initial conversations [with PSA and General Motors] I think it is understood that Vauxhall's plants are very efficient," he added.
Asked by Labour MP Pat McFadden about the future of the UK's supply chain for the car industry, the minister hailed the UK's competitive car parts sector.
"That makes it attractive to investors," he said.
Mr Clark also told MPs that he had mentioned the importance of looking after current and former employees who are members of the Vauxhall pension scheme, which has a deficit of...

Summary: The business secretary, Greg Clark, has told MPs that Vauxhall workers in Luton and Ellesmere Port have no reason to fear for their jobs.
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Article: Will Strutt, 25, from Heybridge, Essex, posted on Tesco's Facebook page about his experience in the reduced fruit and veg aisle in the Maldon branch.
The supermarket replied with a poem, saying they were "not worthy to bask in your glory and fruitful findings".
The post has attracted hundreds of comments, the Essex Chronicle reported.
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Mr Strutt said his fruity bounty was put to good use as dessert for his family, with the remaining strawberries being frozen for use in breakfasts.
His post claimed "minstrels will write songs about this day", and went on to recount the rivalry he had with a "rival dad" who also had en eye out for the yellow sticker gun labelling items as reduced.
"Then I saw it, in all its golden aura, the promised land," he wrote.
"The previously empty reduced fruit and veg hotspot contained a tray of strawberries, not 25% off, not 50% off but 10p... a box!"
He told Tesco: "You enjoy that 80p, buy yourself something nice & treat yourself.
"For today you levelled me up and my newly upgraded bargain skills will no doubt allow me to live like a king for the rest of my days."
In response, Tesco made a poem out of the tale of his experience.
"But there is one question left / For bargaining is an art / With all the fruit you have now / Will you make Pimms or Tart?," it read.
Mr Strutt said he had not expected such a response, thinking he would "only get ribbed by friends and family".
The post went on to gain more than 2,400 Facebook likes and hundreds of shares and comments.
"We ended up having a bit of back and forth," he said. "I was very impressed with the way they handled it - it showed the less corporate side of things."
Mr Strutt is now planning on creating more posts as his regal bargain-hunting character with the aim of "making people smile and having fun".

Summary: A supermarket shopper has become the self-proclaimed "king of the yellow stickers" after purchasing punnets of strawberries worth £16 for 80p.
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Article: He needed £120 and says he didn't have a problem convincing them to lend him cash by saying he worked full-time.
But the 20-year-old admitted lying on his application and told Newsbeat it was "too easy" to be accepted.
He's now likely to be one of 330,000 people whose debts will be written off after a ruling that Wonga lent money to people who couldn't repay it.
"My bank couldn't give me an overdraft or anything, and so I went to them [Wonga]," he says.
He received his money and went on holiday, but a few weeks later he says the firm started calling him and he says they were "constant".
"They were ringing me every day," he says. "They were telling me how much I owe and that there was added interest."
Elliot says that a few months later he was being told his debt had risen to more then £800 and it began to affect his day-to-day life.
The longer it went on, the more he says he worried he would get about his situation getting out of control.
Elliott is likely to be one of those to have his loan cancelled and says it's come as a relief.
He says the amount of the debt was making him feel depressed and that he had "no idea" what he would have done if this ruling hadn't come.
In Elliott's opinion, the whole process is too simple and he wants payday lending to be banned.
"It's so easy to go online and get one that you don't really look at the small print and they don't really tell you that much," he says.
He also said it would have been easy for him to lie about his salary and increase the amount he could get.
He describes the payday loan system as a "vicious circle" and warns that you can end up owing more and more money each month.
Newsbeat have approached Wonga for a response but we've yet to hear back from them.
If you're struggling with debt, the Citizens Advice Bureau says not to use payday lenders.
They offer a service to help people re-organise and manage their repayments to make them more affordable.
There's a chance you may have also been treated unfairly and they'll deal with the lender on your behalf to...

Summary: When Elliott Gomme needed money for a holiday, like many people he turned to payday lender Wonga.
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Article: The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts.
However, its screen is lower resolution than Kobo's Android-powered Arc 7HD.
One analyst said it would be an "uphill struggle" to sell the new device.
"There is growing consumer apathy to this growing class of low-cost tablets," said Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"Although there is the Nook angle on this, it goes into the melting pot with numerous other tablets that will appear in this price point as we run up to Christmas.
"Amazon has pretty much locked out the market in reading-focused tablets anyway, the only thing I'd applaud here is the fact that Barnes & Noble has gone to Samsung, which can give it scale and quality."
The advantage that the 7in (17.8cm)-screened Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook has over Amazon's Fire tablets is that it can easily access the Google Play marketplace. Amazon's tablet uses a proprietary store with fewer apps available.
Costing $179 (Â£107), the new Nook is also cheaper than the Kindle Fire HDX and Kobo Arc 7HD.
However with only 216 pixels per inch, text will appear less sharp on its screen. Likewise, magazines and movies sold from the included Nook Newsstand and Nook Video apps will present less detail than similar purchases on either the two other Android machines or Apple's bestselling iPad Mini, which also has its own dedicated ebook store.
Even so, one market watcher said the tie-up still made business sense. Samsung should benefit from the exposure of having its machine promoted in Barnes & Noble's stores and website, while the retailer gets to cut its costs after posting a $47m (Â£28.2m) net loss for its last financial year.
"It's very hard to make money out of mobile devices," said Ian Fogg, from the IHS consultancy.
"But by having this partnership, Barnes & Noble can have its own content and services pre-installed so that they are not just front-of-mind but also...

Summary: Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD+, which it manufactured itself.
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Article: The new plan is for training to be split across three different sites.
There would be some joint training, but the three services would each have their own facilities.
The big winner would be the fire and rescue service - it would get a £44m purpose-built complex at Desertcreat, near Cookstown in County Tyrone.
Timeline: Ten years of stop and start for NI's public services college
The BBC revealed in March that a programme board in charge of the Desertcreat project had concluded it was no longer economically viable.
It said the joint college as originally planned was no longer needed because of reduction in the number of training days required by each of the three services.
The Office of First and deputy First Minister then asked for a revised business case, setting out preferred options for future training needs.
That review has now been completed and the BBC has obtained a copy of a draft report setting out the board's recommendations.
It says the preferred option is for the fire service to have a training facility at Desertcreat at an estimated cost of £44m.
If the plan is approved by the Northern Ireland Executive, it is understood the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) would also be allocated about £20m to refurbish its existing training facilities at Garnerville police station in east Belfast.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service would be given funding for training at Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons as its training centre in Millisle, County Down, has been closed.
The proposed new complex for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) would be built on the site bought 10 years ago for a new policing college at Desertcreat.
That plan was later changed to include the fire and prison services, but has now been revised.
It would include what is called a 'hot house'.
This is a building that can be set on fire in a controlled fashion, or heated to extremely high temperatures, to give firefighters realistic training.
Northern Ireland does not currently have such a facility.
The NIFRS would...

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Almost a fifth of homeless applications now come from the private rented sector, according to Shelter Scotland.

Article: Photographer Richard Nicholson took a look inside that box, capturing those who have helped bring the silver screen to life.
"When I first stepped into a projection box, I was struck by the claustrophobic atmosphere," says Nicholson.
"It was a dark, cramped space, and, as the projector whirred into motion, it became increasingly hot and noisy.
"As I watched the projectionist wrestle with a giant spool of film, the scene reminded me of a railwayman shovelling coal into a locomotive."
Working with The Projection Project, Nicholson's pictures are accompanied by the thoughts of the projectionists, many of whom are experts on the history of cinema.
Nicholson usually works on a large-format film camera - but, paradoxically, for this project, he shot the images on a digital camera.
Following a test shoot, he realised he would require a vast amount of lighting to work on film, whereas a digital approach allowed him to use smaller flashguns to light the projection boxes.
With cinemas across the country still under threat from redevelopment and closure, it is perhaps the perfect time for this project.
"I think it's a wasted opportunity if you go to a cinema and it's just a blank screen, and no curtains, with some feeble lighting, and it just sort of starts," said projectionist Peter Howden.
"I remember going to the cinema and the lights would change colour and the organist would come up out of the floor. It's simple and it's effective and it would be a pity to lose that.
"I think it's part of the magic of going to the cinema. Putting on a show rather than just showing a film."
The projectionist is the final step between the film and the public. And, for many, that flickering light that pierces the darkness of the cinema is still magical.
"When I used to go to the cinema with my mother, I was never looking at the film, I was always looking to see where it came from," said projectionist Rachel Dukes.
"In those days everybody used to smoke. And so when the beam of light was coming down, you'd have these pretty patterns of...

Summary: At the start of the decade, many of Britain's cinemas made the switch from analogue projection to digital, changing forever the role of those inside the projection box, with many films now projected by a computer.
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Article: David Cameron told a committee of MPs there had been an "attitudinal change" which he wanted to see continue.
He cited the example of the Somerset Levels, where dredging of rivers has resumed in a bid to avoid a repeat of flooding seen in 2013-14.
He also defended the response to floods in northern England and Scotland.
In an appearance before the Commons Liaison Committee, Mr Cameron said: "You've seen quite an attitudinal change in the Environment Agency that in years gone past, I think, were trying to balance up the effects on nature on the one hand and protecting property on the other hand.
"We've said to them: 'The time for that is over. This is about protecting human lives. This is about protecting our homes.'
"I want to see that continued shift. You saw that very directly in Somerset, where there is a man-made environment and it was ridiculous those rivers weren't being dredged.
I threatened to go and drive the dredger myself. Those rivers have now been dredged.
"Do we need an attitudinal change in the way we approach flooding? Yes, we absolutely do."
The Environment Agency, which covers England, is responsible for managing the risk of flooding from main rivers, and issues flood alerts and warnings.
But that was not the reason it was set up or the main part of its remit.
"We work to create better places for people and wildlife, and support sustainable development," the agency says on the "what we do" section of its website.
Several storms wreaked havoc across the UK in December, with Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire among the worst affected by the floods.
Parts of Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland also saw flooding and damage from a series of storms, including Desmond, Eva and Frank.
The environment agency's chairman, Sir Philip Dilley, resigned on Monday after coming under pressure for holidaying in Barbados during the recent floods.
Last month the agency's deputy chief executive said a "complete rethink" of the UK's flood defences was required, saying better waterproofing of...

Summary: The Environment Agency has been ordered to prioritise protecting people's homes ahead of nature when tackling flooding, the prime minister says.
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Article: Example's announced that he's cutting back on his live schedule to focus on, among other things, his family.
"I feel the need to go away for a while so I can come back in 2016 with a new album and a new live show experience," he wrote on Twitter.
The rapper's released five studio albums since 2007 and had two UK number one singles.
"Last year I did 120 shows and didn't spend enough time in the studio or songwriting for myself and other artists," he wrote.
"In 2015 as it currently stands I will be doing 50 shows with DJ Wire overseas (none of them in the UK)."
If you break down those tour stats, it means he's averaged 250 shows a year, performing roughly 20 songs a time.
That's around 40,000 songs in total.
"I'll be back in 2016 with the full live band and lightshow experience for festivals and tours," he said.
"2015 is all about new music and my wife and son."
Example became a dad for the first time in December.
He's married to Australian model Erin McNaught.
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Summary: When you've done 2,000 shows in eight years, we don't think anyone would begrudge you taking a little break.
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Article: Coventry-based Covpress Limited had experienced "significant and urgent funding issues," administrators Grant Thornton said.
No redundancies have been announced and it would look to "pursue a sale or rescue of the company," it added.
Covpress Limited makes body panels for car makers including Jaguar Land Rover and Renault.
The company said on its website that in 30 months since a Â£30m British-Chinese consortium takeover in July 2013 "a further Â£25m has been invested in the Canley plant in both machinery and jobs".
The Unite union said the administration was "a worrying development for the 800 employees" and more generally for the West Midlands economy.
But regional officer Adrian Ross added "there is optimism that a buyer will be found".
Read more news for Coventry and Warwickshire
This is an unusual administration.
It is very different from many collapses we have seen in the past where companies have lacked orders and struggled to win new work.
Covpress has been expanding rapidly over the last three years and is understood to have full order books.
Whatever has gone wrong, I would expect administrators would be seeing a lot of interest from potential buyers and that should help save the bulk of the jobs at Covpress.
Grant Thornton said talks with customers and suppliers would be "critical to any outcome".
Eddie Williams, a joint-administrator, said: "We expect significant interest in this growing business and with that support, we will look to pursue a sale or rescue of the company."
In July last year Covpress spent another Â£30m buying nearby Honda supplier UYT, which was renamed Covpress Assembly, a move that safeguarded 400 jobs, according to the company's website.
Covpress Assembly Limited is not subject to the administration.

Summary: A car parts manufacturer, which employs about 800 people, has been put into administration.
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Article: Lord King said the eurozone would still be the UK's biggest trade partner, even though the euro had been a "mistake".
Leave campaigners argue the UK could strike better deals with faster-growing countries if it were outside the EU.
However, Germany's finance minister warned the world economy would be "poisoned" if the UK departed.
British voters will be asked whether the UK should remain an EU member in a referendum on Thursday 23 June.
Asked if the UK would be badly affected by eurozone troubles after the referendum, Lord King told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "That will be true, in or out."
The life peer was governor of the UK's central bank during the financial crisis and stepped down in 2013.
He said the euro project had been a "mistake" and that Germany, one of the driving forces behind the single currency, could be better off leaving.
The "economic arithmetic" does not add up for the euro, but Germany and other EU leaders are supporting it for political reasons, he said.
"That is why in the longer run the euro area, not the EU but the euro area, is something that we should all be concerned about," he said.
Lord King would not comment on whether he was in favour of the UK leaving the European Union.
The UK sold Â£200.4bn of exports to eurozone countries in 2014, which was 39% of all the goods and services it sold abroad that year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Of the EU's 28 countries, 19 use the euro.
Campaigners on both sides of the EU referendum are focusing on how the vote will affect British trade.
Speaking on the same show, London Mayor Boris Johnson said the "riskier option" was to stay inside the EU because its focus was on preserving the eurozone.
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble conceded that the UK could negotiate a new trade deal to stay inside the single market - a free trade zone across all 28 EU countries - without being a member of the EU.
However, he said, a UK decision to leave would cause "years of the most difficult negotiations".
"For years we would have...

Summary: The UK will be affected by the euro area whether it votes to stay in or leave the EU, according to former Bank of England boss Mervyn King.
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Article: The charity said this was disproportionate to the sector's size, which is 13% of housing in Scotland.
Homeless applications have decreased by a third in the past five years but the Shelter said the statistics did not tell the full story.
It said it was important that vulnerable households were supported before they were pushed into crisis.
According to the latest Scottish government figures, the proportion of  homeless applications that come from the private rental tenants rose from 13% 2008-09 to 18% in 2013-14.
However overall homelessness in Scotland fell by 34% during the same period, official statistics showed.
Graeme Brown, director of Shelter Scotland, said: "Whilst the headline figures show that homelessness applications are down by one third in the last five years, which is welcome, our analysis shows it is not all good news for homeless people in Scotland.
"The 36,457 households making homeless applications, a youth homelessness rate at 13.7 per 1,000 and a rising proportion of homeless applications from the private rented sector signal that, although there are movements in the right direction, there is still a long way to go."
"With the significant weakening of the welfare state in recent years, it is more important than ever to ensure that vulnerable households are offered support before they are pushed into crisis."
The report, 'Homelessness in Scotland 2014: Getting Behind the Statistics', has been released ahead of Shelter Scotland's annual conference later this month.
Housing minister Margaret Burgess said: "Homelessness in Scotland is falling and the number of homeless applications from the private rented sector has actually fallen by 21% since 2008/09.
"The Scottish government is working closely with local authorities and their partners, and with Shelter, to prevent homelessness, increase the number of affordable homes and address the issue of empty homes. Where people do become homeless, our focus is on finding the best outcomes."

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Dementia researchers have developed a video game that could lead to the development of early diagnostic tests for the disease.

Article: Alex Smith, from Oldham, said it was an "injustice" victims were receiving far less than those who contracted HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.
His solicitors have asked the Department of Health (DoH) for comparable help.
The DoH said it was "more than doubling" its annual spending.
Mr Smith said he may start a judicial review of the government's cash help for those affected.
He said: "Why are they not treating us the same, why is my life worth less than someone with HIV?
"It is an injustice."
In 2015, the then Prime Minster David Cameron apologised to thousands of victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
The government announced in July that those with stage 1 Hepatitis C would receive Â£3,500 a year, with the provision to appeal for a higher payment close to the Â£15,000 received by HIV patients who received toxic blood.
Mr Smith's solicitor, Leigh Day, said the government's wording was "unclear" and needed clarifying, adding: "It continues the existing unlawful discrimination against stage 1 HCV claimants."
The payments ran counter to a government decision which said people with Hepatitis C should receive financial support which is "broadly comparable" for those who contracted HIV, the letter added.
The Department of Health said it was "more than doubling its annual spend on the scheme for people affected by this tragedy over the next five years, and was therefore able to provide an annual payment to all infected individuals for the first time."
It added: "This is significantly more than any previous government has been able to provide for those affected by this tragedy."

Summary: A man who developed Hepatitis C from contaminated blood is demanding more financial support from the government.
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Article: Newport council is considering the plan ahead of a new shopping centre opening.
Councillor Matthew Evans said the committee also backed a ban on drinking alcohol in public but decided that leafleting should not be stopped.
The final decision now lies with the cabinet member for regulatory functions, Councillor Bob Poole.
Human rights organisation Liberty previously said a ban on begging and rough sleeping would "criminalise the most vulnerable in the city" and that the proposals "make a mockery of Newport's Chartist legacy".
However, Mr Evans said he and the other committee members backed the recommendation for the ban after 90% of people who responded to a public consultation were in favour.
"We want to make sure the message is sent out that the majority of people don't want to be approached by beggars or to see people rough sleeping," he said.
"This will make it easier for police to deal with the problem.
"We want to ensure the public and businesses are protected because they're the ones affected by anti-social behaviour."
Councillor Roger Jeavons, chairman of the committee, said they had listened to evidence from the police.
"We have looked at pages and pages of reports from police regarding, in particular, aggressive begging - that was the biggest issue," he said.
"People are feeling very intimidated by these sort of people who are sitting outside ATMs and car park paying machines."
The council wants to introduce a new Public Spaces Protection Order to tackle anti-social behaviour ahead of the opening of the new Friar's Walk shopping centre next month.
It consulted with members of the public about what they would like to see included, such as a ban on begging, rough sleeping, dogs who are not on leads and leafleting in the city centre.
Mr Evans added that the scrutiny committee did not back a recommendation to ban leafleting in the city centre because members did not want to damage small businesses.

Summary: A ban on begging and rough sleeping in Newport city centre has moved a step closer after a council scrutiny committee backed the idea.
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Article: Hundreds have been stolen in bulk from orchards, with thieves using rakes to drag fruit straight from the tree before selling them on.
The fruits themselves are immature this time of year so consumers buying them will have a "very bad eating experience", an industry body said.
In New Zealand avocado sell for between NZ$4-6 (US$2.8-$4.2; Â£2-Â£3) each.
The CEO of New Zealand Avocado, Jen Scoular, described the thefts as small-scale and opportunistic.
"In New Zealand we don't import avocados, and we've had a moderate supply of avocados in the last season and a big increase in demand," she told the BBC's Newshour programme.
"People want them, people know they need them in recipes, so the thieves are thinking maybe we'll be able to get a good price for these avocados."
The thefts have been happening at night, and local police said although they were happening over a wide area they had just one suspect in mind.
"Anything that is going to make them money, they are going to hook on to," Sergeant Aaron Fraser told Stuff.co.nz.

Summary: High prices and surging demand have sparked a spate of avocado thefts in New Zealand.
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Article: The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.
Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.
In response, the hackers group Anonymous has targeted the FBI and US Department of Justice websites.
The news came a day after anti-piracy law protests, but investigators said they were ordered two weeks ago.
The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.
"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime,"said a statementposted on its website.
The FBI website was intermittently unavailable on Thursday evening due to what officials said was being "treated as a malicious act".
The hackers' group Anonymous said it was carrying out the attacks.
The Motion Picture Association of America's website also suffered disruption.
The charges included, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.
A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.
The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m (£32m) in assets had been seized.
It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.
"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content, and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.
"By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to...

Summary: Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.
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Article: There were 65,648,000 people in the UK in June 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The ONS said that was a rise of 538,000 on the figure in 2015, equivalent to a city the size of Bradford.
Net migration of 336,000 accounted for 62.4%, while the difference between birth and death rates made up 35.8%.
There was also an increase of 9,500 in armed forces personnel based in the UK.
The population went up in 364 local authority areas, with the biggest rises in the City of London (7.3%) and Tower Hamlets (3.3%).
It fell in 26 areas, including South Lakeland and Aberdeen, 17 of them on the coast, and remained the same in one.
Last year's increase was the highest since 1947, which saw a rise of 551,000, driven mainly by a surge in births after World War Two.
Around the UK, the population of England jumped by 481,800 (0.9%) to 55,268,100 - and is now more than 55 million for the first time.
The population of Scotland increased by 31,700 (0.6%) to 5,404,700, Wales by 14,100 (0.5%) to 3,113,200, and Northern Ireland by 10,500 (0.6%) to 1,862,100.
Neil Park, head of the Population Estimates Unit at the ONS, said: "The population of the UK continued to grow in the year to mid-2016 at a similar rate to that seen over recent years.
"Net international migration continued to be the main driver, but there was also an increase in births and fewer deaths than last year."
The population of the UK has increased by just over five million in 11 years - previously it took 35 years, from 1970 to 2005, to make the same leap.
Population change in the UK has averaged 482,000 a year over the past decade.
The ONS bases its figures on the usually resident population of the UK, and long-term international migrants who change their country of usual residence for a period of 12 months or more.

Summary: The population of the UK has increased by more than half a million - the biggest rise for 70 years - according to official figures.
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Article: 4 May 2016 Last updated at 17:39 BST
The way players navigate the 3D levels in Sea Hero Quest will be anonymously tracked and sent to the researchers.
Understanding how people navigate 3D environments is important because the skill is often one of the first lost by people who have dementia.
Researchers say the game could generate an unprecedented amount of data.
Read the full story: Mobile game 'helps dementia research'

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Every living veteran who served in Bomber Command during World War Two is being sought for the unveiling of a new memorial.

Article: The EA's action plan for 2017-18 sets out a strategy for changes to the number and nature of schools.
It identifies and names about 40 schools where "sustainability is an issue" across the 11 council areas.
One school has described the plan as being punished "for having the temerity to be small and successful".
However, any decision to close or merge schools would be subject to consultation.
The EA's director of education, John Collings, said Northern Ireland had too many schools, particularly primary schools.
"We must maximise the use of the schools' estate through sharing and co-operation to ensure that the educational experiences of our young people are the best they can be," he said.
"This will also help reduce duplication and ensure efficient use of resources."
However, some schools are opposed to any plans to merge or close them, such as Mercy Primary School in north Belfast, which could merge with Holy Cross Boys and Holy Cross Girls primary schools under the EA plan.
The financial position of a school and how many pupils it has can be used to decide if a school is sustainable or not.
Other factors are quality of educational experience, strong leadership, accessibility and strong links with the community.
Over a third (36%) of primary schools have fewer than 105 pupils, while almost half of post-primary schools have fewer than 500 pupils.
Those are the minimum numbers of pupils recommended in the Department of Education's sustainable schools policy.
In 2013, an independent panel recommended that some small schools were closed or merged.
In October 2016, the EA's draft area plan signalled that there would be an increasing number of closures and mergers.
However the action plan makes proposals for the future of a number of individual schools.
In a statement, the principal of St Patrick's College in Dungiven, Michael Gormley, said: "Governors, staff and indeed a lot of pupils and their parents are surprised that we have been selected to be included in this action plan.
"We are more than meeting the needs...

Summary: About 40 schools across Northern Ireland could be set to close or merge, according to Education Authority (EA) plans.
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17 December 2014 Last updated at 08:39 GMT
Dyfi osprey project manager Emyr Evans, from the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, has written a book describing how they went from "two guys with a torch" showing people the first birds to re-colonise Wales, to an observatory and conservation project attracting over 30,000 visitors per year.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Mai Davies two lots of birds had arrived simultaneously, at the Glaslyn valley and Welshpool.
"It was like buses - nothing for hundreds of years and then two turned up at the same time," he said.
There are now four or five pairs in Wales and this year for the first time the number of chicks went into double figures, with 10 born.
"Hundreds of years ago, ospreys were part of everyday life for Welsh people and hopefully it will be the same again," he added.

Summary: The story of a 10-year project to help ospreys breed in mid Wales when they returned to the country after a centuries-long absence has been documented by one of the people involved.
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Article: Joseph Terry formed Joseph Terry & Co in York in the early 19th Century.
The company would go on to produce some of the confectionery industry's best-known brands, including Terry's Chocolate Orange.
The blue plaque has been installed by the York Civic Trust on the site of the company's first shop and factory in St Helen's Square.
The shop was opened in 1818 by confectioners Bayldon & Berry, which had been founded in 1767.
Mr Terry originally trained as an apothecary and joined the business in the 1820s, taking it over and renaming it.
His descendants would develop the business by moving into chocolate production and opening a new factory in Clementhorpe.
The company eventually moved to a site on Bishopthorpe Road in the 1920s.
The St Helen's Square site was retained by the company as a shop and restaurant until 1980.
The Terry's connections with the city ended in 2005 when the company, then owned by Kraft, moved production overseas.

Summary: A plaque honouring the founder of one of the country's best known chocolate firms has been unveiled.
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Article: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said many sets were designed to perform well in government tests, but used more energy in regular use.
It said energy consumption could be twice the expected amount.
But the US Consumer Technology Association (CTA) said modern TVs were an "efficiency success story".
The NRDC said it found many television sets disabled energy saving features with little or no warning when a viewer adjusted other settings, such as the picture brightness.
It also found that a test video produced by the US Department of Energy to determine energy consumption typically used less energy than real-world television broadcasts.
The group suggested that the short scenes in the test video triggered screen dimming features in some televisions, lowering their energy use.
It also warned that energy efficiency tests did not analyse how a television performed when displaying high dynamic range (HDR) video.
HDR allows a much larger number of colours to be shown, but consumes more energy than standard high definition pictures. Manufacturers are gradually beginning to produce HDR-capable sets.
"In some cases, a TV's annual energy use will be twice the levels that manufacturers reported," said Noah Horowitz from the NRDC.
However, CTA president Gary Shapiro said "fundamental changes in video screen technology" meant television sets were now more energy efficient than before.
"Innovation is constantly driving TV models to become thinner, lighter and more energy efficient," he said.
He also defended the eco-friendly modes included on some sets, saying that they provided viewers with choice.
"The TV settings used in the energy efficiency testing processes can be and are used in the real world, unless consumers want a different viewing experience," he said.
A spokeswoman for the European Commission said: "The Commission is involved in discussions on a completely new test loop that will not only make defeat devices far more difficult to be conceived and implemented, but will also be able to capture...

Summary: Energy efficiency ratings on televisions are flawed and likely to mislead consumers, a US environment advocacy group has claimed.
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Article: The study, by Westminster and Essex universities, questioned 269 people - around half of whom did some gardening.
The results revealed that those who spent as little as 30 minutes a week in their allotments saw significant gains in mental well-being, according to the Journal of Public Health.
The research also showed the allotment gardeners had fewer weight problems.
The participants were questioned about their mood, self-esteem and general health.
Those who had worked in their allotments at least once a week had lower levels of fatigue, depression, tension and anger - and had higher self-esteem and better general health - than those who had done no gardening at all.
They also had a significantly lower body mass index (BMI), reflecting a healthier body weight than those who did not garden.
The length of time spent gardening did not alter the results, meaning that fitting 30 minutes into schedules was still beneficial.
With urban living on the rise, along with the risk of poor mental health, co-author Dr Carly Wood, from the University of Essex, said: "Allotment gardening might play an important role in promoting mental well-being in people residing in urban areas."
But many garden allotments have long waiting lists, the study mentions.
President of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Prof John Ashton, said: "We need a strategy that considers how we could make better use of neglected land that marks the transition from towns to cities."

Summary: Gardening in an allotment can improve mood and self-esteem, according to research by two universities.
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Article: The International Bomber Command Centre is being built in Lincolnshire, which became known as Bomber County in the war because it had so many RAF bases.
The centre is due to open in 2016 but a memorial spire has already been erected at the site in Lincoln.
Organisers want to invite every veteran to the unveiling on 2 October.
They already have names of 900 veterans but believe there are more still to be identified.
Nicky Barr from the International Bomber Command Centre says they have made some new contacts.
"A lot of the veterans that we've now been able to invite weren't on any comprehensive database or squadron lists," she said.
"We've picked up thus far about 50 that come under that category. We suspect that there's probably, at an estimate, another 100 out there."
The spire stands higher than the Angel of North and will be surrounded by a "wall of names" recording the 55,573 men who lost their lives serving in Bomber Command.
Other elements of the centre will include an exhibition and education space called the Chadwick Centre, an amphitheatre and acres of landscaped gardens.
Anyone knowing of any Bomber Command veteran is urged to register their names by emailing events@internationalbcc.co.uk or writing to The IBCC, 13 Cherry Holt Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LA.

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A Halfords customer's dashboard camera caught a mechanic speeding in his car while it was booked in for an MOT.

Article: The city was reduced to rubble during what became known as the "Swansea Blitz".
About 35,000 incendiaries and 800 high explosive bombs were dropped during the raids which started on 19 February, 1941, killing 230 people.
The raging fires could be seen from the other side of the Bristol Channel in Devon.
Swansea was targeted because of its nearby docks and part of the Germans' bombing campaign was to cripple exports as well as demoralise civilians and emergency services.
It resulted in whole areas being completely cleared and rebuilding starting from scratch.
"Pre-Second World War Swansea had begun to look and feel like a city," said Bangor University's Dr Dinah Evans, whose research includes the impact of warfare on, and reconstruction of, Swansea.
"Hotels, restaurants and cafes abounded, together with theatres, art galleries, concert halls and shopping arcades.
Wednesday 19 February - Friday 21 February, 1941
"In the commercial centres of Wind Street, Castle Street and High Street the pavements were wide and the shops fronting onto them stylish, selling merchandise of all kinds.
"The department stores were imposing and many of a calibre usually found in London.
"However, when in 1941 Swansea came under enemy attack from the air, the face of the town was changed for ever.
"Although the town's Guildhall, art gallery and library were still standing when the bombing stopped, its social and entertainment heart had all but disappeared.
"The town centre was destroyed and Swansea people had to contend with a bleak landscape where once prosperous shops and stores had stood."
Dr Evans said the council was under pressure to produce a plan that would not only restore those areas damaged in the blitz but also ensure the future prosperity of Swansea.
She added: "Meanwhile rumours began to circulate in the press that Swansea town's reconstruction progress compared unfavourably with other bombed cities, especially that of Plymouth.
"However, when it came to the question of rebuilding a blitzed town or city centre, there...

Summary: Seventy-five years after German bombs rained on a thriving Swansea for three successive nights during World War Two, efforts are still being made to regenerate its centre.
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Article: The prospect of an embarrassing parliamentary defeat will have focused the minds of ministers on a compromise.
But what do the unimpressed Tory MPs dislike about the academy plans? And what will be the sticking points in negotiations with ministers?
Very well-placed Tory backbenchers have highlighted some of the main areas of concern:
Compulsion: These MPs are supporters of the achievements of academies and the principle of autonomy. But if there is a high-achieving school that doesn't want to become an academy, where is the justification in forcing such an unwanted change? This carries the risk of damaging rather than improving schools and it goes against the grain of school choice and parental involvement.
There is already legislation to turn struggling schools into academies and successful schools can already choose to convert. So why would the government want to force good and outstanding schools, against the wishes of heads and parents, to change status? The MPs would prefer more carrot than stick.
And compulsion, above all else, would be the line in the sand - as many of the other concerns would be diminished if one-size-fits-all academy status became something that was encouraged rather than compulsorily required.
The suggestion that local authorities could become chains is not seen as a positive step, but something that reverses autonomy, giving them more power with less electoral accountability.
The timetable: If thousands of schools, many of them primary schools, are put under a deadline to become academies, there will need to be hundreds more academy trusts to accommodate them. Where are these going to come from? What will be quality of these rapidly-assembled trusts? Will they have to be unmanageably large to take in the number of new academies? Will they be strung across the country in a way that doesn't take into account local needs.
If the pace is forced, is there a danger that excellent schools will have to be stuck into not-so-excellent academy chains?
Accountability: If all schools were put...

Summary: If the government is going to push through its plans to force all schools in England to become academies, it will need to persuade its own Conservative backbenchers, many of whom seem deeply unenthusiastic about the proposals.
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Article: Faith Spear was chairman of Hollesley Bay prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) when she wrote an article for the 2016 Prisons Handbook.
Writing under the name Daisy Mallet, she raised concerns about the way monitoring boards operated.
Identified as the author during an IMB meeting last April, Mrs Spear, of Ipswich, was initially suspended.
She has now received a letter from prisons minister Sam Gyimah informing her that her role as IMB chairman has been "terminated" and she has been banned from sitting on any IMB for five years.
In her article, she claimed members of IMBs were effectively "gagged" from raising concerns about the prisons they were responsible for monitoring.
The letter said she had "repeatedly disclosed official, classified and other information" and said she had "failed to comply with the standards expected of public appointees".
Mrs Spear said the letter was a "shock and upsetting", but added: "It is not going to stop me, the issues are still there."
She said while she was suspended there had been issues in a number of prisons, including a riot at HMP Birmingham and disturbances at HMP Swaleside and HMP Bedford in the past three months.
"The IMBs have to change," she said. "It has to be part of the reform process.
"If people monitoring are not allowed to speak out about what they see, but are effectively shut down, then I think that is very dangerous.
The Ministry of Justice has yet to formally comment on the case.

Summary: The chairman of a watchdog has been sacked after voicing concerns over prison reform under a pseudonym.
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Article: Mr Christie dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after a lacklustre showing in polls and state races.
"I'm happy to be on the Trump team and I look forward to working with him," said Mr Christie during a press conference.
Mr Trump gives Republicans the best chance to win the White House, he adds.
He said junior senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both running for president, were "unprepared" for the job.
There is "no question" that Mr Trump will turn around Washington, Mr Christie continued, and keep Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from winning the White House.
If Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio generated any momentum from their ferocious attacks on Donald Trump during Thursday night's Republican debate, that's all gone now.
Mr Christie's endorsement allows Mr Trump to boast that he's drawing bona fide support from mainstream Republican officeholders - and not just a ragtag collection of politicians on the fringes of the party.
The New Jersey governor will help assure voters wary of Mr Trump's brash style that he's an acceptable candidate. He can also serve as an attack dog, tearing into Mr Rubio the way he did during that fateful debate in New Hampshire.
The Christie endorsement could signal a new phase of Mr Trump's presidential campaign, when prominent politicians begin to make peace with the reality of a Trump nomination.
Mr Christie, and others, may see a benefit to being among the first major figures on board the Trump bandwagon. Already rumours are floating that former candidate Mike Huckabee is on the verge of joining Mr Trump's ranks as well.
This is what happens when a frontrunner draws close to victory. And just because the man approaching the finish line is Donald Trump doesn't make it any less true.
Frontrunner Donald Trump, a businessman from New York, is leading in many state polls and has already won three consecutive state contests in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, despite never having worked in politics.
He shouldered some criticism from Mr Rubio...

Summary: New Jersey governor and former Republican candidate Chris Christie is endorsing frontrunner Donald Trump for president, he has announced.
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Article: Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa said he believed sport should be a pleasure - never a battlefield.
He made the announcement after meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Three people died and 264 were injured in the 15 April blasts. Two brothers are thought to be responsible.
One was killed in a shootout with police and the other was captured.
On Saturday thousands of runners completed the final mile of the Boston Marathon - five weeks after they were forced to abandon the race.
The event was billed as "OneRun", with the slogan: "We'll get our finish."
Three American flags and one Chinese were carried in remembrance of three people who died by the finishing line, and the policeman killed days later by the brothers in the shootout.
Last week, US media reported that the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had written a message in a boat where he was found which said the attack was retribution for the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The victims, he added, were "collateral damage".
Mr Tsarnaev is facing federal charges of using a weapon of mass destruction, as well as malicious destruction of property resulting in death.
He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Summary: The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon has said he will return his medal to honour the victims of the twin bomb blasts near the finish line.
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Article: Shaun Ingram from Saltash booked his Ford Focus ST in for a major service at Halfords Autocentre in Plymouth in March.
On its return he discovered the dashboard camera recorded footage of his car being driven 57 mph in a 30 mph zone.
Halfords said the mechanic was a temporary employee who had been let go.
After the complaint the company has apologised and offered to refund the Â£255 for the MOT and service.
Mr Ingram said the camera was in plain sight on the windscreen and was not left on to "catch anybody out" during the service.
The camera recorded almost seven hours of footage including the mechanic swearing and talking about test-driving the car.
Mr Ingram said: "When I saw the footage I was left open-mouthed. The mechanic was abusing my car and my trust.
"As a nationwide company I thought I had nothing to worry about. I feel very let down."
The regional manager for Halfords Autocentres, Daren Stone, told Mr Ingram that the mechanic's behaviour was unacceptable.
He said: "He drove your car in what I can only describe as an appalling manner.
"I do not and will never condone that level of pure neglect which is why the mechanic in question has been removed from working within the Halfords Autocentre Group."
Mr Ingram said: "From now on I will always wait by the car whilst it is being serviced."
A spokesperson for Halfords head office said: "We are looking into the full details of the incident and will deal with this issue internally as a matter of urgency to ensure this type of incident does not occur again in the future."

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This is Calvapilosa, a prehistoric relative of modern sea slugs.

Article: The cap, which applies to posts earning above £20,800, is a measure introduced under the coalition government in 2011.
The Home Office has confirmed that the monthly allocation of so-called "Tier 2" visas has been filled for June.
There were 1,650 allocations for June, but the Home Office will not confirm how many applications it received.
The BBC understands that as well as nurses, doctors and teachers other visas refused were applications to bring in accountants, solicitors and management consultants.
Under the Tier 2 scheme, there are 20,700 posts available a year to employers who want to recruit a non-EU skilled worker.
Applicants have more chance of success if the company is trying to fill a post on a national list of shortage occupations. The BBC understands that none of the visas refused this month under the cap relates to a job on that list.
On Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to make it harder to bring in skilled staff from outside the EU, saying, it was too easy for some businesses to employ these workers, rather than train British employees.
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said there were no plans to change the current Tier 2 limit - and the independent Migration Advisory Committee would be advising on further reducing economic migration from outside the EU.
"Our reforms will ensure that businesses are able to attract the skilled migrants they need," he said. "But we also want them to get far better at recruiting and training UK workers first."
But some business representatives predicted that enforcing the cap would be damaging.
Mark Hilton, head of immigration policy at London First, said: "Every skilled migrant we turn away as a result of this cap will hit jobs and growth.
"Of course business wants to hire locally, but you can't just magic people up with highly specific skills because they take years to develop."
Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, said: "The cap has been hit at a time when many companies are hiring recent...

Summary: The government's immigration cap for non-EU skilled workers has been hit for the first time, blocking the arrival of some nurses, doctors and teachers.
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Article: The shadow culture minister was among 47 MPs to ignore the party's three-line whip to back the European Union Bill.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn previously suggested shadow ministers could be sacked if they went against the whip.
MPs overwhelmingly backed the measure in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
There were 498 votes in favour to 114 and the move will allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.
The bill now faces further scrutiny in the Commons and the House of Lords before it can become law.
The prime minister has set a deadline of 31 March for invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting official talks with the EU started.
Cardiff West MP Mr Brennan was one of seven Welsh Labour MPs to oppose the move as most MPs from Wales backed it.
Bridgend MP Madeline Moon and Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley), Owen Smith (Pontypridd) and Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth) were the others voted against the move.
Mr Brennan was the second Labour front-bencher in Wales to announce he would vote against Jeremy Corbyn's wishes, following Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens who quit as shadow Welsh secretary on Friday over the order.
In a blog post ahead of the vote Mr Brennan wrote his constituents had given him a "clear message" and it was his "duty to oppose" the Bill.
Cardiff was one of five areas in Wales to vote remain at the referendum in June.
Mr Brennan wrote that Prime Minister Theresa May's recent speech on the process of leaving the EU had "helped to clarify that the path she is leading the UK down is likely to make Britain little more than an annex of Trumpland".
"That is a future I cannot vote for. It is also a future which a clear majority of my constituents do not support," he wrote.
He added: "I believe it is now quite clear that triggering article 50 will lead Britain on a road to the kind of economy and society I have never believed in.
"That is also the view of the majority of my constituents. Taken together, those two things mean that I cannot vote to...

Summary: Brexit rebel MP Kevin Brennan could be sacked from Labour's frontbench for defying the party to vote against triggering Article 50 and leaving the European Union.
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Article: The choice of sites was driven largely by operational considerations - they are places engineers believe a lander can get down with the least risk.
No-one has attempted to land on a 10-billion-tonne comet before.
The Rosetta probe will despatch its Philae contact robot to 67P's icy surface on 11 November.
The European Space Agency says it will be a one-shot opportunity.
Rosetta and the comet are currently about 400 million km from Earth, making real-time radio control impossible.
Instead, the process will have to be fully automated with commands uploaded several days in advance.
The five sites on the "longlist" were selected at the end of a special meeting convened in Toulouse, France, this past weekend.
Esa project managers were joined by attendees from the space agencies of France (Cnes) and Germany (DLR), which play key roles in the Philae effort.
Instrument principal investigators on the washing machine-sized robot were also there to argue their preferences, as were the engineers, who could explain the technical possibilities.
If one considers the comet to look like a rubber duck, then three of the chosen potentials (B, I and J) are on the head. Two are on the body (A and C). The dramatic neck region has been ruled out.
The letter designation stems from an even longer list of 10 that was used to kick-off the whole selection process. The letter ordering carries no weight.
A landing site needs to be relatively flat and free from boulders and fissures.
One key requirement has been the need to find places on the comet that experience something of a day/night cycle.
This will give not only a better appreciation of the changing behaviour of 67P under all conditions, but will provide the lander with some important protection - from too much sun, which could lead to overheating, or too little light, which would make it difficult to charge the batteries.
The engineers have also emphasised the need to find locations where Rosetta can deliver Philae at the right altitude and velocity, and maintain a communications...

Summary: Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to put a robot on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has identified five potential locations for the touchdown.
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Article: Councils received more than 160,000 requests for help in 2016/17, with the emergency cash paid out totalling more than £9.3m.
The Scottish government said "harsh welfare cuts" and delayed payments from the UK administration were to blame.
The Department of Work and Pensions denied this, saying the Scottish government's claim was "misleading".
The payments came from the Scottish Welfare Fund, which was set up in April 2013 to both provide funds for people to live independently and to act as a safety net, and has since helped more than 254,000 households.
In the last financial year, payments under the scheme totalled £34.7m, including 42,775 community care grants adding up to £25.4m.
For crisis grants, 116,830 awards were made from a total of 164,965 applications, totalling £9.3m. This was an increase of about 14,500 on the previous year, or about 14%.
A new category of crisis grant was added in 2016, of "delay in payment of benefits". Just over 17,500 applications were subsequently made for this reason, accounting for about 10% of all applications.
Scottish Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman said this was down to trouble with the rollout of Universal Credit, a welfare system rolling together payments including housing benefit, child tax credits, jobseeker's allowance and income support into a single monthly sum.
The Scottish government is in the process of taking on a raft of new social security powers, and has announced plans to use them to increase the frequency of Universal Credit payments.
Ms Freeman said: "We can now see clearly the impact of the UK government's harsh welfare cuts and a system that is broken.
"We have repeatedly warned that the UK government's chaotic rollout of Universal Credit, particularly the unreasonable six-week wait for first payment, is having an adverse impact on people.
"So let me repeat again our urgent call for the UK government to listen to the real-life impact of their policies and immediately halt its rollout, or risk pushing more households into hardship."
Scottish...

Summary: The number of crisis grants handed out to Scots struggling to pay for basics like food or heating has risen by 14%.
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Article: "It chimed quite vividly with me because so many of my friends are finding it quite hard to go through that," Piper says. "It seems to be a very common topic at the moment."
Piper plays the title role of Yerma in a modern retelling of Federico Garcia Lorca's 1934 tragedy about a woman whose desperation to become a mother is met with indifference by her husband.
Simon Stone's version, which begins previews at the Young Vic this week, relocates the action from rural Spain to contemporary London.
Speaking during a break in rehearsals, Piper admits she hadn't heard of the play until she was approached about the role at the end of last year.
"I read the original, and I thought that it was one of the most beautiful pieces of poetry," she says. "It's that story of a modern woman who is suddenly suffocated and strangled by her ticking clock.
"I witness that all around me, and I read about it frequently. I thought that it seemed like a very relevant piece of work."
Stone, who also directs, is no stranger to giving classic plays a modern makeover.
His adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck played at London's Barbican in 2014.  It also inspired his debut feature film, The Daughter, starring Geoffrey Rush and Miranda Otto.
Stone, who has been described as Australian theatre's enfant terrible, says he likes to liberate pre-existing stories that are "maybe a little bit stuck in their era".
"I'm always looking for myths for the modern world," he says. "Yerma is a play that I loved and thought about a lot, but hadn't got round to putting it at the top of my list of priorities.
"It's a great story about a woman who becomes so preoccupied by the idea of having a child and increasingly destroyed by the idea that it's not going to be possible."
Stone advises audiences not to get distracted by the contemporary London setting.
"The play that I'm writing is for the theatre I'm putting it on in," he says. "The theatre happens to be in London in 2016."
He adds: "This particular myth of the woman who can't, surrounded by women who...

Summary: Billie Piper says her latest stage role, about a woman desperate to have a child, feels very relevant because it's an issue being faced by many women she knows.
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Article: Researchers discovered it after looking back at some fossils found in the late 2000s in Morocco, North Africa.
Two of the fossils were in such good condition that the team were able to make this amazingly detailed reconstruction.
You can clearly see its small mouth filled with hundreds of teeth and the prickly spines which cover its body.
This slug like creature also had a built in, helmet like, shell to keep it safe from predators.
It might look a little terrifying but it was only four inches long and scientists think it survived by eating algae off rocks.
Molluscs first appeared on earth around 520 million years ago, Calvapilosa is an ancient relative of modern molluscs.
A mollusc is a type of animal that doesn't have a spine, there are lots of different kinds including slugs, snails, oysters and squid.
Jakob Vinther who was the lead researcher on the project said "This discovery brings a neat solution to how the ancestor of all molluscs may have looked."

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Plans to demolish and replace two West Midlands fire stations - one of which is Grade II listed - have been backed by fire service bosses.

Article: Researchers say treatments could be developed based on antimicrobial peptides that occur naturally in the immune systems of humans and animals.
The Edinburgh Napier University team observed how they increase the body's natural response to rhinovirus infection.
Rhinovirus is the main virus responsible for the common cold.
The team synthesised antimicrobial peptides found in pigs and sheep, and assessed their impact on lung cells infected with rhinovirus.
The peptides successfully attacked the virus, and could provide clues for developing novel treatments based on peptides found in nature.
Dr Peter Barlow, associate professor of immunology and infection at the university, said: "This is an exciting discovery and our next steps will be to modify the peptide to make it even better at killing this virus.
"This research is still in the early stages, but we will ultimately be looking to develop drug treatments that have the potential to cure the common cold."
An effective treatment for the cold could help sufferers of more serious lung conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), for whom viral infections can pose a serious health risk.
Dr Barlow added: "There is no cure and no vaccine so the development of effective therapies for human rhinovirus, the main causal agent of the common cold and one of the most common causes of viral respiratory tract infections, is an urgent requirement.
"This study represents a major step towards finding a treatment."
Earlier research by Dr Barlow had underlined the potential of antimicrobial peptides in tackling the influenza A virus.
The latest study, was funded by the Chief Scientist Office and medical research charity Tenovus Scotland.

Summary: Scientists believe they may have made a breakthrough in the search for a cure for the common cold.
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Article: More recently we've seen the rise of the touchscreen. But other attempts at re-imagining controls have proved vexing.
"It's one of the hardest problems in modern computer science," Michael Buckwald, chief executive and co-founder of Leap Motion, told the BBC.
But after years of development and $45m (Â£29m) in venture funding, his San Francisco-based start-up has come up with what it claims is the "most natural user interface possible."
It's a 3D-gesture sensing controller that allows touch-free computer interaction.
Israeli firm Primesense has been making headlines in recent days thanks to a report that it is in talks to be bought by Apple - something the 3D sensor firm says is an unfounded rumour.
Rather than trying to make consumer products of its own, the company licenses its depth-sensing tech to others.
Its sensors are used in Microsoft's original Kinect, a 3D scanner by Matterbot and iRobot's Ava - a device that guides itself through hospitals allowing doctors to use it to "visit" patients without leaving their office.
Primesense recently showed off Capri - a second-generation sensor that is 10 times smaller than the previous version and needs less power.
It has fitted the component to one of Google's Nexus tablets to stir up interest and also suggests it could be built into smartphones.
But rather than fitting the sensor to the front of devices to recognise owners' gestures, the firm suggests the best use would be on their backs to look out into the surrounding environments.
"Object recognition is something that is very easily do-able," chief executive Inon Beracha tells the BBC.
"Imagine you scan something - you would get an identification and then you could get the price for an object."
Although the sensor won't feature in the Xbox One games console's new Kinect - which is using Microsoft's own tech - Mr Beracha says to expect news of a tie-up with another big player "in the next months".
Using only subtle movements of fingers and hands within a short distance of the device, virtual pointing,...

Summary: The keyboard and mouse have long been the main bridge between humans and their computers.
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Article: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation claims that an independent DNA analysis found Subway's chicken to contain only about 50% actual chicken.
Subway vehemently denies these claims, and says its own lab results found less than 1% soy protein.
"Our chicken is made with 100% chicken + spices and marinade," the fast-food sandwich chain tweeted.
The CBC Marketplace report sent samples of fast-food chicken products, including Subway, to Trent University's Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory.
Earlier this week, CBC reported that the lab found that Subway's chicken was only about half animal protein. The rest was soy protein.
"The oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy," CBC wrote.
The story ruffled feathers all over the world, but Subway says it isn't accurate, and cited the results of its own DNA test as proof.
Subway did not did not share the DNA analysis with the media, and CBC is standing by its story.
Steven Newmaster is familiar with the type of testing CBC used to come to its conclusions. The botany professor at the University of Guelph caused his own media firestorm when he published a 2015 paper claiming that many herbal supplements contain unlabeled plant ingredients and filler.
Prof Newmaster used DNA barcoding to analyze the samples, which is the same method employed by CBC's Trent University lab. The methodology works by scanning organic material for short DNA sequences. The test can show the DNA percentage of a product, says Newmaster, but "it is very difficult" to translate that to the product's mass. That makes it hard to say how much of a product is actually chicken and how much is actually soy.
He said people shouldn't take too much stock in CBC's report yet.
"I do not think Subway should be scrutinized without another lab validating the results of this study as the standard operating protocols and analysis must be clearly defined, reproducible and statistically accurate...

Summary: Subway says a media report claiming its chicken is half soy is "wildly inaccurate".
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Article: The militant group Isis is widely perceived as leading the uprising, but it is not acting alone.
Here, jihadist groups analyst Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi looks at who is taking part in the insurgency.
While Isis has grabbed headlines around the world, there can be a tendency to overstate its role in the insurgency.
Indeed, initial media coverage of events like the fall of Falluja and Mosul often portrayed the insurgent offensives as solely the work of Isis. The perception is fed by Isis' social media output that puts great weight on holding parades and raising the banner in assertions of power.
However, it cannot be denied that Isis is at least leading the majority of moves into new territory to wrest control from government forces. This is partly because Isis is better equipped, having seized advanced weaponry and uniforms from security forces over the past couple of years.
Furthermore, when it comes to asserting authority in a new area, one advantage Isis has over other groups is its superior financial resources, which enable it to engage in outreach to locals.
It is this outreach, combined with the group's restrained conduct in Falluja, that gives Isis an advantage in securing tribal support in Anbar in particular, where some negotiated handovers of territory to Isis' authority have taken place and where hope has been expressed that Isis will not be harsh in imposing its strict view of Islamic law on the tribes.
One of Isis' slogans is "remain and expand", which is precisely what it has done in Syria and Iraq.
In Iraq, Isis has a presence in most of the localities that have fallen into insurgent hands, spearheading the takeovers of Mosul and Tikrit.
In both cities, Isis has asserted itself as the main authority. Indeed, from the "city charter" issued by Isis for Mosul, the group has made it clear it wishes to turn Mosul into Iraq's version of the city of Raqqa, its de facto capital.
Conversely in Falluja, Isis has not issued a similar charter and has been more tolerant of practices it deems un-Islamic,...

Summary: Iraq's government is fighting a rebellion which has seen it rapidly lose control of predominantly Sunni Arab northern and western parts of the country.
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Article: The GM wheat converts sunlight into chemical energy (photosynthesis) more efficiently, boosting growth.
If the government grants permission, the experiment would potentially be the second ongoing field trial in the UK.
A go-ahead would indicate a softening in opposition to outdoor experiments to develop GM crops in Britain.
The researchers believe that the variety has potential to greatly increase crop yields. The purpose of the proposed trial is to evaluate the performance of the engineered plants in the field.
Approval could be granted by the end of January 2017 and the first crops could be planted next spring at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden.
GM technology has been around for  more 20 years, but some of the first open air trails of genetically modified crops in the late 1990s were disrupted by protesters who trampled on the plants.
Campaign groups were concerned that genes would flow from the GM crops and enter neighbouring plants and so create "super weeds".
As a result of public opposition to the technology at the time there were no outdoor trials of the technology between 2003 and 2010.
There were protests against two field trails approved since then, in 2009 and 2011, but they were not as fierce as the ones a decade earlier.
And there have been no protests against a field trail of GM rape seed planted in 2014 at Rothamsted Research which is still on going.
Prof Christine Raines, head of the school of biological sciences at the University of Essex, who is involved with the proposed wheat trial, believes that public fears over GM technology have reduced in recent years.
"I believe that there is less opposition to GM," she told BBC News.
"I would like to think that it is to do with the fact there has been a great effort made by plant scientists to explain more fully and clearly the potential of GM plants to improve our future".
Prof Raines says that outdoor field trials are essential if scientists are to to find new ways to boost food production.
Yields in wheat have not increased in the past 30 years...

Summary: Researchers have applied for a licence to carry out a trial of a genetically modified wheat crop in a small field in Hertfordshire.
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Article: The futures of Aston and Coventry stations were discussed by West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority.
The authority, which said it needed buildings for a "modern-day" fire service, approved its budget earlier.
Plans to demolish Aston's Ettington Road fire station, which was built in 1923, will go before planners.
Phil Hales, deputy chief officer of West Midlands Fire Service, said Aston residents would be consulted as part of the planning process.
The authority says that Coventry's Radford Road station, which was built in 1976, is expensive to run and maintain.
A new station at Aston could cost around Â£7.5m, while the Coventry scheme could cost an estimated Â£6.7m.
English Heritage has said it expected to be consulted on the proposal to demolish Aston fire station if the plan was put forward.
"Aston fire station was listed at Grade II in 2010 and recognised as a carefully-designed building which works well with its surroundings and is a powerful symbol of civic pride," a spokesperson said.

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